Albert Bandura

Bandura's biography 

(Mundare, Canada, December 4, 1925) is a Canadian psychologist who has family from the Ukraine.

He focused on behavioral-cognitive behavioral studies and is a Stanford University professor, renowned for his work on social learning theory and its evolution to social-cognitivism, as well as for postulating the category of self-efficacy.

Throughout a career spanning almost every decade, Bandura has been responsible for great contributions in very different fields of psychology, including social-cognitive theory, therapy, and personality psychology. It has also had a decisive influence on the transition between behaviorism and cognitive psychology.

He is known as the creator of the theory of self-esteem, an important contribution to the theory of social learning, and responsible for the Bobo doll experiment on the aggressive behavior of children.

He has received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa at universities in different countries for his contributions to psychology. Some of these degrees were awarded by the universities of Rome, Indiana, Leiden, Berlin and Salamanca.

Bandura was also president of the American Psychological Association in 1974. In 1980 he was appointed president of the Western Psychological Association (WPA), and in 1999 he received the honorary chair of the Canadian Psychological Association.

A 2002 poll placed Bandura in fourth place among the most cited psychologists of all time, after B. F. Skinner, Sigmund Freud and Jean Piaget, and the most cited live. Bandura is recognized as the greatest current psychologist and one of the most influential of all time.

by: Karen Nathaly Hernandez.